This video is about the Karoo of South Africa. The Karoo is a vast semiarid region of central and southern South Africa, roughly twice the size of France. It covers 45% of South Africa itself and was traditionally exploited by lowintensity sheep farming. Today, expansive game reserves are returning some of the land to its preEuropean condition and stocking it with indigenous wildlife. The Karoo is a tough landscape with hardy rural communities pitted against the harsh conditions of the neardesert environment. The geology of the Karoo is famous for its expansive, flatlying outcrops of Permian and Early Triassic sediments. These rocks are host to some of the world's best fossil reptiles representing the early evolution of land animals.